I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

I was born in the same town as Richard Burton, the actor, and I saw him, he used to come - he and his wife drove by in the car in my father's shop and Burton would come home from Hollywood and ask him for his autograph, and I thought, I want to be like him. And that's all I said to myself, I want to be like that. I want to get out of this environment of my own empty mind.

There is nothing to be scared of in movies. It's a bit scarier going on stage.

You have to be pretty tough to be an actor, and you have to be pretty certain what you want. You can't waffle through this business.

It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.

It's very difficult to liberate yourself from what you've learned. You know it's almost impossible because you learn in order to survive.